Introduction: Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) or nosocomial infections are defined as infections not present and at the time of admission to a healthcare setting.Nosocomial infections are those infections acquired in hospital or healthcare service unit that first appear 48 hours or more after hospital admission or within 30 days after discharge following in-patient care. Materials and Methods:Conceptual framework: the study was based on Health belief Model Rosenstock (1999) was adopted for study.Design Descriptive design (comparative).The sample size was 60 staff nurses for 30 each for separate hospital for comparison between two groups.The tool for data collections is structured questionnaire and observational checklist.The collected data were tabulated and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: Result that shown there was significant difference in overall mean knowledge score and practice score between the staff nurses of government and private hospital regarding the prevention of nosocomial infection, the obtained "t" value 6.707 (P< 0.05, df = 58) was greater than the table value at 0.05 level of significance.There was significant association between the age of the staff nurses and the level of knowledge regarding the prevention of nosocomial infection (χ2 =10.671,P <0.05, df=3, "t" value= 7.82 and χ2 = 6.696,P< 0.05, df= 2, "t" value= 5.99).There was significant association between the area of practice of the staff nurses and practice regarding the prevention of nosocomial infection (χ2 =16.5, P< 0.05, df= 6 "t" value= 12.59). Conclusions:In comparison of knowledge and practice staff nurses of both hospital, staff nurses of government hospital had more knowledge than practice, whenever staff nurses of private hospital had more practice than knowledge.
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